{"id":297832,"date":"2019-04-19T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=297832"},"modified":"2019-04-19T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:06:06","slug":"4-h-marianas-delegates-represent-nmi-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/4-h-marianas-delegates-represent-nmi-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"4-H Marianas delegates represent NMI in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_297833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297833\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-H-Marianas-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-297833\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-297833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Youth delegates of 4-H Marianas prepare to meet Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) at the State Capitol. From left, Dan Salde, 4-H Marianas public relations officer; Tasi Long, 4-H Marianas Tinian representative; and Alyssa Attao, 4-H Marianas president.  (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the first time in CNMI history, 4-H Marianas delegates participated in the 2019 National 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C., joining other representatives from all across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI delegation was composed of Alyssa Attao, 4-H Marianas president; Dan Salde, 4-H Marianas public relations officer; and Isa Long, 4-H Marianas Tinian representative. <\/p>\n<p>Also called N4-HC, the conference gives the youth an opportunity to represent their state or territory as they learn and have hands-on educational activities, while discussing issues about the youth and their community.<\/p>\n<p>Current issues addressed at the conference were also presented to many federal agencies and the U.S. Congress. <\/p>\n<p>4-H Marianas is a non-profit organization that educates the youth about the environment, healthy living, indigenous culture, and helping the community. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Saipan Tribune, Attao said that attending N4-HC \u201cwas definitely a foot in the door\u201d and will open more opportunities for the CNMI youth community to be nationally recognized.<\/p>\n<p>Among the issues that the 4-H Marianas delegates talked about at the conference were mental health, bullying, and cyberbullying, Attao said, \u201c[and] presented our island\u2019s perspective and our [proposed] solutions\u201d to federal agencies, like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>While in Washington, D.C., the young delegates also visited Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan and talked about what 4-H Marianas is currently doing in the CNMI and issues that concern the youth. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe brought up the topic of mental health because we are concerned about the lack of knowledge, awareness, and actions surrounding the youth,\u201d Attao said.<\/p>\n<p>And since May is Mental Health Month, Attao said that 4-H Marianas will be following up with Sablan\u2019s office on how they could work together \u201cto make a positive change\u201d in the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c4-H Marianas is very active within the community, from organizing our own programs to collaborating with other agencies on youth programming,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Toward this end, the organization is currently participating in an initiative known as \u201cRaise Your Hand,\u201d where people can support the 4-H program in their community by voting in an online poll. The territory with the highest number of votes will receive up to $20,000 that will go to education funding and more youth programs in the community. To vote, visit https:\/\/4-h.org\/raise-your-hand\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in CNMI history, 4-H Marianas delegates participated in the 2019 National&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":297833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-297832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}